Test 4 · ★ · pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace re…

so the eldest brother just gave up, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: eldest brother · What happens: give up, innit

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1897 «pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace returns home, and the youngest son meets the hare and the Porcelain Maiden» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the eldest brother						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he sat in the inn and skived off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 inn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inn	det
7	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skived	cc
9	skived	skive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 skived	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			the inn			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in inn=Location
2	skive off	past	he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he kept on going regardless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
7	regardless	regardless	ADV	_	6 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	go	gerund	he not said here					regardless property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he jacked it in and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jacked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jacked	nsubj
4	jacked	jack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jacked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 jacked	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jacked	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jack in	past	he	it					tree rules
2	go	past	he not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he sat in the inn and skived off, then went home to bed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 inn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inn	det
7	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skived	cc
9	skived	skive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 skived	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he	the inn			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in inn=Location
2	skive off	past	he not said here				tree rules
3	go	past	he not said here	bed	then	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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